Big Fish officially opened on Broadway one year ago today. We look back at a two-show day as documented by Leah Hofmann, who lent her song, dance and puppetry skills to the new musical.

PHOTO RECAP: A Two-Show Day at Broadway's Big Fish With Singer-Dancer-Puppeteer Leah Hofmann

PHOTO RECAP: A Two-Show Day at Broadway's Big Fish With Singer-Dancer-Puppeteer Leah Hofmann

Big Fish officially opened on Broadway one year ago today. We look back at a two-show day as documented by Leah Hofmann, who lent her song, dance and puppetry skills to the new musical.

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Good Morning, Playbill.com! After sharing my backstage shenanigans at War Horse, I’m honored to take ya’ll on a Two-Show Day Journey with my fellow company of the new Broadway show Big Fish!
Leah Hofmann

Another Op’nin’, Another Show... with animal puppets! No matter the show, I enjoy honing my puppetry skills in the morning. I’ve made my own replica of our Big Fish mermaid tail with fabric courtesy of Will Pike, our talented puppet designer.
Leah Hofmann

I make my routine visit to the neighborhood Savoy Bakery here in SpaHa (aka Spanish Harlem). My cool baristas show off the newest addition to their art collection... Rose, the Pit Bull Puppy!
Leah Hofmann

I take the long way with my iced coffee to the 2/3 Subway through the least populated portion of Central Park.... ahhhh, the Upper Upper East Side.
Leah Hofmann

Subway took a bit longer than expected, so I gotta run now into ballet class at Alvin Ailey! Plies start in 5 minutes!
Leah Hofmann

There’s nothing like the educational/entertaining ballet class of Kat Wildish. Who doesn’t enjoy a morning adagio inspired by Christopher Columbus, the waterfalls of Australia, or last night’s mixed drink?
Leah Hofmann

For a pre-show snack, I make my way to the oh-so-popular-and-healthy-Westerly Market... kombucha, anyone?
Leah Hofmann

I have a few minutes to relax, so I sit at World Wide Plaza in midtown and work on my Etch-A-Sketch Art (SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!! Follow me @elleetchysketchyart on Instagram)
Leah Hofmann

I’ve been working on my mustache collection. CHALLENGE: Can you match each mustache to one of the following actors in Big Fish: Cary Tedder, Alex Brightman, Ryan Andes and Tally Sessions (answers on last slide)
Leah Hofmann

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Hofmann's theatre credits include War Horse on Broadway, Young Frankenstein, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Sunset Boulevard, The Producers, Camelot, La Cage aux Folles, 42nd Street, My One and Only and Gypsy. She holds an MPT from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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T Directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact, Show Boat, Crazy for You), the work features music and lyrics by Grammy and Tony nominee Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family) with a book by Grammy and BAFTA Award nominee August. Two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can) told the "big fish stories" in the musical adaptation, in which he starred as Edward Bloom opposite Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow) as Sandra Bloom and Tony Award nominee Bobby Steggert (Ragtime, Off-Broadway's Giant) as Will Bloom.

Big Fish, according to press notes, "centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest… and then some! Edward's incredible, larger-than-life stories thrill everyone around him – most of all, his devoted wife Sandra. But their son Will, about to have a child of his own, is determined to find the truth behind his father’s epic tales. Big Fish is about dreaming, loving and living bigger."